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VOL. 1
, The Llrd'si Song.
v How Bhall & bird an crippled wing
Ever get op into the sky ?
Is it not better to 'cease to sing
- To droop and to die ? j
There are bo many before me there,
With songs so load and long and sweet,
: They startle the passer unaware
I am at his feet ! s
And though I sing with a' quivering breast,
And a dewy eye and a welling throat,
Jly heart so close to the thorn is pressed,
That I spoil each note. '
And it ever I sing a? song -
Sweet of the sweet and 'true of the true,
All 'of it's drowned by thej birds ere long,
Up in the blue. j
O, for one hour of rapturous strength !
O, to sing one song in the sky!
High over all the birds at length
J Then J. could die ! ;
THE SCII 00L3I ASTER OF THE BAB.
; : " When is he expected V
Tiiey said he ; -was coming in to
night's stage." i . J . (
" He taught in Friscd, didn't he ?"
' Yes, I guess he was in the depart
ment." - . f . ; . , j
The doctor's wife was an authority on
all matters in Russian Bar, and on this
las sensation the coming of a school
mas ,.er she freely enlightened her
neighbor, Mrs. Blunt, a plump widow,
whose miner husband had I died a few
months before. There was not much to
gossip about in that quiet village. The
arrival and departure i of the stasre
Drougnt tue people to tlieir doors three
times a week, and if a stranerer was
noticed .envoys were irnmediately dis
patched to the hotel to learn his name
and business, and the probable length
of his stay. But now Russian Bar was
to have a new schoolmaster, and the
folks wondered much if he would have
anj ' trouble with Sam ! Seymour, the
, butcher's boy, or Ike Walker. an unruly
epiric, wno naa KnocKea jaown ana pum
melled the last preceptdr who under
took to teach him school discinhne.
The trustees were powerless in these
matters, and declared that if a school
master was not able to "get away" with
the boys ip a square, stand-up fight, he
might as well pick uphisjtraps and leave
Kussian liar. r s 7
On the very erening of the expected
arrival, Seymour and Walker, the lead
.jjif spirits of the mutinotis schoolboys,
met at a pool, from whjcii botn were en
deavoring to coax a few sjaeckled trout
for supper.
' Have you heard what the new chap
is like, Sam ?" said Ike, as he impaled a
wriggling worm on his hook.
" No : have you ?"
"Father told Jack, the barkeeper, that
he was very young." '
"And small?" !
' M.Yes."" L ' ,
Guess he won't stay long in town,
Ike." i
"I gnesa not, Sam. i School ain't'
good for usvsuch fine weather as this." j
The worthies sat and fished in silence
for some time, and then Ike produced a
bunch of cigarettes and passed them' to
his friend. At last, finding that the
fish would hot bite, they shouldered
their poles and straggled up toward
the village, pausing for a moment to
stone a Chinaman's rooster, which had
strayed too far from the protecting wash
nouse. . i
Philip Hougton was a
from necessity, and not
schoolmaster
taste. lake
many who have been educated as gen
tlemen, in one sense of this word, that
is, without the acquaintance with any
special pursuit that might be turned to
good account in th? struggle for bread,
he found himself adrift iri California,
with nothing to fall back i on. Seeing
an advertisement a city jpaper for' a
competent teacher to take charge of the
schoot at Russian Bar, he answered it,
and was accepted at a ventiire. Putting
his movables . together a) pair of old
foils, and a set of well-wtorn boxing
gloves, for Houghton wai an accom-
Elished boxer and f encer-r-he bought
is ticket for Russian Bar. j ;
He found the stage-driver a communi
cative, pleasant , fellow, who, at his ret
quest, described the characteristics of
his future home;. Indeed, his descrip
tion of the class of boys whom Hough
ton was to take charge of was not veijy
encouraging. 'You'll find them a hard
lot," said he, "and they're all on the
muscle, too." i
"What is about the weight of my
oldest ?'? asked Houghton, good humot
edly. "You see if I have got to exer
cise something more than moral suasion,
I want to get posted on the physique of
my men." i
"Well," Sam Seymour is about the
strongest." I
"And what is about the size of the
redoubtable Ike ?" I
"Well, I guess he tops you by (half a
head." 1
' "O, I expect wel get along well
enough together," said Houghton; "and
I suppose this is the first glimpse of
Russian Br," he added, as a turn in
the road brought them in view of that
picturesque village.
The stage bowled along the smooth
road, and past thejgreat white oak, under
whose friendly branches the teamsters
were accustomed to make their noon
time halt.
"I'll set you down at tbe hotel," said
the driver. "There's Perkins, the pro
prietor that fat man smoking on the
StOOp." .- ,'. .:;. v;-: .- 'J .
Houghton confessed to -himself that
the prospect before him was any thing
but a prepossessing one. He was not
of a very combati ve nature, though, he
liked a little danger for the. excitement;
but a game of fisticuff with a dirty,
KOGKINGHAM, 'N. C, SATURDAY MOKNING, JlfKE 28, 1873.
uiuMiiou? Doy naa neitner glory nor
nonor for a man that had been one o
the hardest hitters in his coHpca.
Thb folks were all at their doors when
the stage clattered up the siucle street
and the slender, good-looking young
man py me a river was measured and
canvdssed before that worthv had
ed the mail to tiie idoctor, who, with his
medieal avocations, also found time to
'runl the post-office. !
The) doctor's wife was at her window,
and, if ter a long survey of the school
masterj hastened "to communicate her
opinions to Mrs. Blunt. Meanwhile
Houghton washed off the red dust of
the rtjad, and took his seat at the supper
table. ! The driver had iintroduced him
to about a dozen of the leading citizens
during the few moments that intervened
Deiween tneir arrival ana tne evening
meat.
w do vou like our town. Mr.
Hong
ton ?." asked the landlord, jnra
ciousl'i
as he helped his new guest to a
cm oiisteaK. ,,
A- Is I L 1 . r
" When you get acquinted you'lj
find yourself pleasantly situated ; but
it's likelv vou'll have a hard time with
tlieboVs." , .
i oq tney an ten me. Anynow, l am
not unprepared," said Houghton, cheer
fully, f
After supper the landlord remarked
confidentially to the doctor " that the
young man had grit in him, and he
thought he'd be able to 'make the riffle'
with the boys
t When Houerhton arose next morning,
and opened his window to the . fresh
breeze! odorous with the perfume of the
climbing honeysuckles, he . felt that,
after a 1, a residence in a remote vil
lage, even with a parcel of rough boys
to take i care of, was preferable to the
dusty, linf amiliar streets of San Fran
cisco, I He smiled as he unpacked his
foils; and boxing-gloves, a little sadly,
too, lorj, tney were linked, witn many
pleasing associations of his undergrad
uate days. '
I " Well," he soliloquized, as he
straightened his arm, and looked at the
finely-developed muscles, " I ought to
be able to hold ,my own in a stand-up
fight w: th these troublesome pupils of
mine. ?his is my day of trial, however,
and bef ore noon we shall probably have
had oui battle out. "
I The chool-house, a raw, unfinished
looking frame building, stood hard by
the, river, at about half a mile from .the
town. - When Houghton opened the
ricKety (wooden " gate that led into the
school Jot, he found a group of some
twenty boys already assembled; among
them
were Sam . Seymour and Ike
Walker.
I The latter's. sister, a pretty
xteen, was leaning against the
girl of s
fence wi
;h half-a-dozen of her friends,
for the
Russian Bar school-house was
arranged for the accommodation of both
sexes
Houghton handed , the key to the near-
est boy,
and asked him to open the door.
With
a
look at the others, and a half
grin on his lace, he obeyed.
" If owl boys, muster in, said Hougn-
ton, cheerfully, to the boys.
Thev all passed m oevmour and
Walker ast. The latter took a good
look at t le schoolmaster as he went by.
When th sy were seated, Houghton stood
at his desk, and laid a heavy ruler on the
books before him.
" Nowl boys," he said, f I hope we
shall get along pleasantly together. You
treat me ! fairly, and you shall have no
reason to complain, I, promise ,you.
Silence and obedience is what I require,
and strict attention to the matter of our
instructi m;"
Gi ving them a portion of thegrammar
to prepare for recitation, he walked
quietly a p and down the roorn, occa
sionally standing at the windows but
appearin g; to keep no surveillance on
the boys . Suddenly the crack of a
match wi s heard,4 followed by a general
titter. ' . ' ') . i , j
Houghton turned quietly from the
window, and saw the blue smoke from a
cigarette arising from where Seymour
sat. ' i . '
" Wha - is your name, boy ?" he asked,
in a stert voice.
" My i ame is Seymour,"- replied the
mutineer , insolently.
"And ; -ou are smoking?" -
" I gu ss so." l
fLeavQ the room !" '
"I gue ss not." .
' There easadead silence in the school
room nov r, and Houghton felt that the
hour of t ial was at hand
' Seym our," he said again, ! very quiet-
iy.! '
" Whal ?"
"Come here." r
' Seymour, putting his hands in his
pockets, f auntered from this deskj stood
within a ; -ard of the schoolmaster, and
looked Bnjeeringly in his face.
"Xeave the room I said
Housrhton
again, m a lower voice, r
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The little arm straightened like a
flash of lightning, and the rebel meas
ured hislength on the floor, whilst the
blood gus hed from his nostrils. In a
moment 1 ie sprang to his feet and rush
ed furiously at the schoolmaster, but
went dow: i again like a reed before that
well-aime 1 blow. The second time hef
fell Houg titon stooped down, and lifting
him as if f he had been a mere child,
fairly flur g him outside the door. ' Sey-
amazed, staggered
down to the brook to wash his face and
reflect onl thewonderful force of that
slight ar
And Houghton, turning' to;
without a word of comment
the sch
on the
tious.
cene. commenced the recita-
alker was mum. Seymour's
fate had
ppalled him,' and - in fact the
ltmous spirit of the scholars
entire mi
of Russiap. Bar was in a fair way of be
ing totally euDdueo. .
When the trustees heard of the affair
they 1 unanimously commended ; the
schoolmaster's pluck.
J tell you what, boys," said Perkins
to a crowd who were earnestly engaged
at a game of old sledge in his bar-room,
" that Houghton knows a thing or .two
about managing boys. Hell fix 'em
off, or my name's not Perkins." -;
Houghton was hospitably treated by
the folks of Russian Bar. They felt
him to be a man of refinement brought
down in the world, but showing no of
fensive superiority m his i intercourse
with them. .The , doctor's wife
pro -
nonnced him to be the bssi KcwXorker
she had ever met, and the gossips in
sinuated that Mrs. -Blunt,! the widow,
was setting her cap for him.
Gipsy Lane, the daughter of a lead
ing man in Russian Bar, j and made
wealthy bv. a saw-mill, which all day
long groaned and screamed some dis
tance :down the. river, did hot express
her opinions as to Houghton s merits ;
but in the summer evenings, when the
schoolmaster, rod , in hand, wandered
along the stream and threw his line
across the milldam, Gipsy was seldom
far i away. Lane, a bluff, hearty old
fellow, frequently asked Houghton to
spend the evening with him, and told
his adventures in early California to a
patient listener, while Gipsy dutifully
mended her father's socks omthe ver
anda.";.; . - . 1
Mrs. .Lane, when Gipsy was but t
baby, was laid to rest on Lone Mouh
tain, long before Lane ever ! thought Of
settling at Russian! Bar. Seymour and
Walker were the best and most Indus
trious pupils the young master had.
and were nappy wnen accompanying
him on his fishin? excursions. In fact,
all agreed in declarine: that j the educa
tional department in the village was' a
thriving success.
One pleasant evening in June, Gipsy
Lane, twirling her straw hat thought
fully, picked her way across j the broad
fields that lay between her house and
the mill. The stream was a winding
one, and as she placed her tiny foot on
the first steppiner-stone, she saw a straw
hat on the grass, which she knew we!
1.
" How is Miss Lane this evening?
said Houghton, lazily, from ibeneath
Manzanita bush, where he had been en
joying a book and pipe.- j J
Well, thank you. . Mow is Mr.
Houghton?" replied Gipsy, shyly.
" Warm; but not uncomfortable. Are
you going to the-miU y' -t "
x es : 1 nave a letter mat nas just
come for father." -
" May I accompany you ?' i
" Certainly, if you choose."
Houghton put on his hat and helped
Gipsy across the brook. j
V 1 had a ?etter from .New York a
ew days ago," said he, after ithey had
eft the first bend of the river behind.
" A pleasant one?"
' Wall - olfVirt-r
brought good news, still I can hardly
call it a pleasant letter." j
They walked on and Gipsey swung
her hat pensively, longing with a Wo
man's curiosity, to hear more about the
New York letter. 1
"I am going to leave Russian Bar,"
said Houghton, abruptly. j
"Indeed ; how soon?" !
"I don't know yet; possibly within
a week." I ,
The hat was swayed from side to side
with increased energy. k
" Do you care much, Miss Lane ?"
This with, an earnest look into the
hazel eyes that were kept steadily bent
on the brown patched grass j beneath
their feet. i : -j
"Yes: of course, we shall all be
sorry to lose you, returned, uipsy,
evasively. '. - . i . ' ' -'.
" If I come back in a few months with
something for my future wife,! shall I
see this ring on your finger?", whispered
Houghton, capturing the littjle hand
that held the hat, and slipping a pearl
ring on the delicate finger.
Gipsy said nothing ; ' but her eyes
turned for a moment on the school
master's earnest face, and in the next
her soft cheek was resting on his shoulder.;-
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Russian Bar, to a man, turned out to
wish Philip Houghton godspeed on the
morning he took his place by the driver,
who one year before riad set him down
at Perkins's hbtel. They knew j he was
on .his way to New York, and that he
had been left some money, and the
gossips more than whispered that there
was something ' between Gipsy Lane
and their favorite. - At all. events, her
eyes were red for a Week after his de
parture. , j"
Winter had come, and the river was
swollen and rapid j and many a lofty
tree from the pine forest had found its
way to the hearths of Russian Bar.
One delicious morning, crisp, and cold,
after a night's rain, -the stage passed by
the large white oak, and, splashed with
mud, halted before Perkins's hoteL' It
had been all night on the way, for the
roads were very heavy. - :
The worthy proprietor of that "excel-;
lent house was in the act of tossing his
first glass, when a hearty hand was laid
on his shoulder, and Philip Houghton
shouted:
"Perkins, old boy, how are you ?"
: The landlord ; returned the shake
hands, dived behind the bar, and had a
second glass mixed in a moment. "And
now,: said he,
as he pledged the ex-
schoolmaster,
when will the wedding
take place?" f
Six weeks afterward the old mill was
hung with evergreen wreaths, and a
grand festival was held-at Russian Bar.
Gipsy Lane was a lovely, bride, and
when Houghton took charge of the mill
and invested all his New York money
in the village, and was admitted to
parctice in the courts, everything seem
ed to take a fresh start. Through all,
his warmest and most devoted friend
'Jfs Sam Seympnr, once the terror, of
Russian nar scnooimasters. and - now
j he holder of that important position.
Cap t Jack's Story.
'- mk-vw nun uriia jLmvxBmie ac
eases the Xliuatl Ciller of Instigating
the War. ; ;:'v'r".- ; v
Capt. Jack, the Modoo chief, spoke
is follows when having his first inter
view with Gen. Davis. He tried to im-
h !ica6 Allen David, the KJamath,Chief,
Vu ttemea - oeing present wnen vu en.
Oanby was killed: - - ,v -
I I do not know how to open the sub
ject about Allen David. I received a
message last winter in the lava beds by
old Schonches and a sub-chief of his
from Allen David as follows: "I don't
wr t you to lower your gun and fight
like a squaw, but you must fight like a
man." . -
( i At first I thought this message was a
Ke, but it came so often T believed it.
X was about to lay down my arms when
I got the message.
( Allen David told Schonches to tell me
to fight it out ; the whites were going to
lgnt him, and he would soon let Jack
tnow what he was going to do. Allen
said: " Hold on to your gun."
I said: " I am going to get ammuni
tion, and will join yon in a few days.
am selling property to buy powder and
lecl.
jdlen said: "Don't act like a woman
bdkinan. I will join you soon. I have
lot of people, and I want to get guns
Urstt. Whatever offer the Commission
njay make, don't believe what they say.
Tjiey are trying to fool you."
i I was going to give up and surrender
wljen I got those messages. I expected
when I killed the Commissioners that
Allen David would be with me next day
o very soon. I had already given up
my arms. I ate the food of the Govern
meat, and didn t want to do any more
fighting after eating their grub ;
iWhen I got this message it made
me act as though I acted for Allen
Davidr and I expected him' to join me
soon. ; . : ' - ' ' .
Allen David caused me to leave the
reservation. I had bad feelings toward
the Klamaths. So many messages came
I believed them. I thought he meant
it, find so I acted.
Ixe and I were now good friends, but
hoicked xn to this thing last winter.
1 was going wherever tney wanted me
and wanted some quiet place, and not on
the rocks. . i
Alien JJavid was always pusning me
up, and tne .huamatn cmeis isaid tne
same. They talked as though Allen
David wasjk big chief. He said that we
must not think the Klamaths were
women.' They were not going to lay
down their arms to whites, il had all
the trouble and did all the fighting, and
he did none. : It looks as though they
tried to get me into this scrape.
I want you to know why 1 commenced
this i war. Last winter, on the Lost
River, Applegate H. Brown came and
said the big chief was coming to talk,
and we must go on the reservation.
Soldiers came and surrounded us before
day, and held no talk or council. I did
not expect that. I was asleep. I told
hem not to shoot when my boys got
he guns. ., The soldiers shot the first
gun. l did not. xtnougpt tney wanted
o talk.: -j -t ;
After the soldiers began to fire upon
my people some of my boys fired back.
did nofc. I took my tnings, and ran as
ast as I could to get away.
Old Schonches, on the reservation,
said he had nothing to say himself,
only he brought a message from Allen
David.
As to Gen. Canby's things that he had
on, ne said: L
" l ean t say aay thing about it. 1
went away. The boys who killed fcren.
Canby got the things. I was there, but
went off as soon as I found I could not
stop them." I
Jack being interrogated, said inrtner:
" Jogus Charley arid Shack Nasty
Jim called Gen. Canby. Allen David
advised them to kill Gen, Canby, so he
did it. I am telling the truth. I did
not kill him. I had it done, but did not
do it.' .. - ; - :y -! . -
He says in conclusion: ' I don't lie.
Bring the men that saw me do this
thing. 1 I want to face them. If I .had
my chains oST I would tell all the men
who did these things."
Schonches said he did shoot at Mea
cham, but all the Mod oca knew he was
a poor shot, and couldn't hit anything.
An Indian GlrL
The sqtiaw Matilda, mentioned in the
despatches as one of I the chief media
tors, is a woman of ho meanxcapacity;
Living with an American, Bhe keeps his
house tight and snug as any white
woman could Whenever not occupied
with "household cues she is busy over
her pencil and paper ; has a roll of
sketches, partly copies, but principally
originals. With a stump of a pencil
and any casual scrap of paper, she will
strike off at sight an American, an Eng
lishman, a German, a Chinaman, a
Modoc, or any eccentric character she
may chance to see ; and her heads are
wonderfully correct and graphic ' If
she had received an education, or en
joyed any privileges except those afforded
by the rudest backwoods, she would
have been heard of in the art world
Matilda is a woman of a strong, dark
face, glittering eyes, slow and deliberate
in speech, and of -an iron will a good
type of her race. ,
Chicago has a married couple who
have lived together for seventy years.
This singular conduct i3 accounted fer
on the ground of spite.
Newspapers in the West,
Horr an Illinois Stmm Tells tbe Story of tbe
Troubles of a Western Editor.
An niinois writer tells the New York
World the following story :
The new postage law which goes into
force on June 30 will bear quite heavily
on many of v the rural editors, who will
now be compelled to pay postage on
their exchanges, just in the same way
as their subscribers must pay postage
on their papers or else, if they wish to
practice a sometimes necessary econ
omy, they must dispense with many of
the newspapers from rwhieh, they obtain
their most valuable 5 uevf i items, v The.
regular rates, according to the new law,
are 35 cents per quarter for a daily pa
per published every day in the week, 30
cents for dailies published six days in
the week, and 5 cents per quarter for
weekly papers. The great metropolitan
journals which havcTtheir thousands of
subscribers and column after column of
paying advertisements (observe that I
accentuate the word "paying") may
feel indifference to the law, as, where
not supplied by their own numerous
correspondents, telegraphic and other
wise, in all parts of the world, at home
and abroad, with the details of every
interesting current event, they can ilas
ily afford to pay the requisition of the
postage law which, in the case of most
of the country editors, becomes a serious
tax on intelligence and on the diffusion
of news among the masses. I need hard
ly assure you that the lot of the average
country editor is not an enviable one.
If our labors are not as important and
as greatly appreciated as are those of
yourself and of your fellow-journalists
in large and populous communities, we
at least are too often taxed almost be
yond endurance without any adequate
return, if not indeed with positive loss
to our exchequers. "
We are the victims too frequently of
sharpers and of confidence menof the
worst description. We open our col
urns to long advertisements of circuses
and other strolling shows, which in sev
en cases out of ten, unless payment be
exacted in advance, leave town and for
get to settle with us. Patent and quack
medicines, too, are sometimes delusions
and snares, and when payment for ad
vertising bills is tendered, as I have
known it to be the case, in the shape of
bottles and jars of L the villainous stuff
advertised, forbearance clearly ceases to
be a virtue.
In the part of. Illinois in which I live
the fever, and ague is not uncommon,
and I have several times been ap
proached by venders and manufacturers
of such quack nostrums, whose wares
nave advertised to tne "extent of an en
tire solid nonpareil column of my paper
(which, by the way, is a weekly sheet
devoted to the dissemination of thenews
of the dav. literature, and the best re
sults of the progressive civilization of
the age), with the invitation to accept
their worthless potions as an equivalent
for the space I had given up to them and
as something that was "good to have in
the house in case of the shakes." You
and others more fortunately situated
have probably smiled, as at, an exhibi
tion of what you term in your latitude
" trenchant Western wit," to read in our
country papers at times such para
graphs as these : " Subscribers who
are in arrears are respectfully notified
that in lieu of their cash indebtedness
to this paper, the editor will receive ba-,
con, nour, potatoes, cord-wooa, &c, as
payment for ; their unpaid subscript
tions." If you but knew the fiardsnips
experienced by the average country ed
itor in the effort to keep his paper afloat
and himself from poverty, you would
understand that there is very . little
fun " or " wit " in these appeals. It
m A I" V 1 A.
is, tnereiore, oecause oi tne aiincuiues
that we encounter in maintaining our
selves, that I have felt to-day like writ
ing to you, to protest against this new
burden imposed upon us by the postage
law regarding exchanges passed by the
last Congress. v ,
But we are at least determined upon
1 i 1 . A A 1 A
one course, ana tnis is to waicu me
Post-office Department closely, and if
we do not promptly and regularly get
through the mails the exchanges for
which we pay postage, then shall we
make our indignation felt in the proper
quarters. A Country Editob. !
Monumental Mirth. i. o
Not far from here, relates the Jour
nal, of Montpelier, Vt., a nlarble dealer
recently received an invoice of tomb
stones, and as he could not procure labor
very easily, he conceived the brilliant
idea of having suggestive mottoes and
epitaphs commemorative of the virtues
and excellencies of the deceased carved
on the stones ready. He even, thought
he might haul a stone to tne inouse oi
the person about to be fatted'otit lor ap
proval. - But his benevolent scheme met
with a crash. Oue evening he received
an order for a tombstone, the style and
decoration of which was left pretty
much to himself. On one of the stones
was a hand carved with the fingerpoint
ing heavenward, and underneath the
inscription, " No graves there !" Think
ing this would be a stroke oi sentiment
wherewith to soothe the feelings of the
family, when they should view the stone
at the head of the newly made grave,
he set it up. But it so happened that
the najne of the person who died was
" Graves," and when the big afflicted
brother saw the tombstone, the senti
ment that there were no graves in heaven
did not soothe him much, and be int r.
viewed the marble dealer. "No gr ires
in heaven hey?" and then, to weja
common phrase, he "lifted "Jiii. The
dealer thinks he wishes there, were none
on earth, i
NO.
Facts and Paaclrs.
General Canby a brother he:
ftane immediately after the f li
the illustrious soldier.
A clergyman at Cedar Fall3 prn:
the other Sunday, "that the editors .
this place may be brought to realize th?
dangers of their situation." ;
There is a startling belief that Caj
tain Jack, in an interregnum of Lia
melancholy, has confessed to Hoolcr
Jim that he is the real author of "Bet
sey and I are Out."
Success rides on every hour ; grapple
it and you may win, but without a grap
ple it will never go with you. .Work is
the weapon. o' honor, and ho wl : 1 .c-s
the weaion .tlli5vtr tri: - ,
At a very swell wedding iccc- 11 :,
lately, the high-toned belles held, the ir
arms like trussed fowls, to prevent the
silk and lace suspenders that did duty
s dress waists from falling off their
shoulders.
Some one calls '' the race of Ameri can
women.- indolent," whefeupon one
of them retort 8, "I wonder if that man
ever reflecte'd upon the amount of chop
ping, we do, and the willingness with
which we it.", .
StatisticSshow that there is a scarcity
of, timber both in the United States tvd
Canadas. In Michigan and Wiscc sin
there is, as was expected, a great f tiling
off in the supply, while the t lock in
New York and Pennsylvania ia unusual
ly small. .
A singular epidemic broke out in
a Kansas town, the other day. Every
wife in the town was suddenly attacked
by an irresistible desire to present her
husband with a. nice little dressing
case, with shaving materials com
plete. An attractive young woman had
opened a barber shop in the village.
A calf and hog belonging to a Penn
sylvania farmer have lately developed
the warmest affection for each other,
and refuse to be separated. It is said
the calf licks and caresses the hog, and
watches over it with maternal affection.
This is the first time we ever heard any
thing like this. -We always ob&erved
the hog watching after the calfso long
as he had any money.
," There's where the , boys fit for col
lege," said the professor to Mrs. Part
ington, pointing to a school-nouse.
" Did they ?" said, the old lady with
animation. "Then if they fit for col
lege before they went, they didn't fight
afterward?" "Yes," said he, smiling
and favoring the conceit, but the
fight was with the head, not with the
hands." " Butted, did they T said the
old lady.
The Vindicator of Youngptown Ohio,
records the following cheerful incident :
A lot of little christain urchins canght
a little Jew boy at the corner of Watt
ant Champion streets, a few evenings
since, tied him to a post, piled a lot of
tinber-wood about to ignite it, when
they were discovered bv some men and
the little Jew rescued. The only reaeon
assigned for thir action and intentions
by tne christian urcnins was. mat mo
Jews had crucified Christ."
Gunning in Florida.
Thin is the atorv told to a Southern
journal by a party lately returning from
Florida :
We proceeded by rail and boat to ri-
latki : there chartered, for S50 a day, a
small steamer, and started on a hunting
expedition np the Ocolonga river, taking
with them their provisions, nnes and
shot-guns, and a large supply of ammu
nition. The river, which is on an aver
age three hundred feet wide, runs for a
distance of three hundred miles from a
chain of miniature lakes in the heart of
the State. For a considerable distance
its course lies through a dense wilder
ness, whose overhanging trees ahd foli
age unite, forming a perpetual bower of
surpassing beauty over the river. No
sound is heard save the notes and cries
of unnumbered wild birds of every vari
ety and plumage. The steamer glides
smoothly along under the ; bower for
miles and miles, while those on board
keep up a constant fusiladeat the game.
At night a huge fire is built of pine
knots on the front of the boat, which
lights up the scenery on every hand and
discovers the birds roostingin the tres.
Our party was gone a week on the trip,
and we kept firing away at the birds a
good portion of each night. As f aet as
thebirds were shot down they were
fished out of the river by the negroes,
who were provided with long poles for
the purpose. The Ocolonga abound in
alligators. One of our party, the well
known editor of the first agricultural
paper in the country, shot and killed
thirty-one of these alligators during the
tripL- ' " - ' '
Business SnltJ.
The jaunty suits for gentlemen for
business and morning we-r are in ex
cellent tate' this season,. The entire
suit, coat, vest and pantaloons, is made
of what tailors call; fVncy plaid worsted
loosely woven clr,': usually black or
very dark brown; wrought in almost in
visible plaids i qt blocks, alternately
smooth and ioesy.aa satin, then rough
ened up lile broche surfaces, with the
merest Joread of color, red, brown, or
white, outlining the block. The coat
of tKiB knit is in the Newfmarket shape,
iIuer double or single breated, with
"Vridely bound edges, flaps and pock eta.
The ingle-breated vt has a notched
collar, and is cut in pojnU at the bot
tom. f The pantaWus s'ightly larger,
than those of last season, are made with
corded sides or welt seams, and
' spring " considerably over tbe ankle.
Such suits cost from $3o to $S3.